1-1 By: Wohlgemuth, Reyna of Dallas H.B. No. 149
1-2 (Senate Sponsor - Carona)
1-3 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 9, 2001;
1-4 May 10, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-5 Affairs; May 11, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-6 Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 11, 2001, sent to printer.)
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to persons eligible to receive a license plate honoring
1-10 peace officers killed in the line of duty.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 502.289(a), Transportation Code, is
1-13 amended to read as follows:
1-14 (a) The department shall issue specially designed license
1-15 [licensed] plates for a vehicle owned by:
1-16 (1) a person wounded in the line of duty as a peace
1-17 officer; or
1-18 (2) a surviving spouse, parent, brother, sister, or
1-19 adult child, including an adopted child or stepchild, of a person
1-20 killed in the line of duty as a peace officer.
1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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